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A useful and decorative tall shrub to 2 metres tall, with large showy and lightly fragrant lemon yellow flowers with dark red centres. It is compact, and can be pruned after flowering to further encourage a more dense...
A lovely medium sized shrub with glowing red flowers for most of the year except winter. Grows to a metre high and a metre and a half wide, making it great for low informal hedging and screening or as a feature plant....
A hardy and very easy care clumping perennial plant, growing up to a metre high and wide. It has sprays of small blue flowers in spring and summer, followed by edible bright blue berries. The berries have small black seeds...
A handsome and dense small shrub growing to one metre high and wide, and with a spectacular spring display of two toned yellow and red-brown pea shaped flowers. The flowers are long lasting and lightly fragrant. It...
An attractive perennial with ferny foliage and sprays of pea shaped flowers in a range of colours, from pink to cream to yellow to orange, mainly in spring to summer. An easy care plant, but is reported that it could...
An attractive small to medium sized shrub with glossy leaves on purple stems. It flowers in November with cream sprays of bloom which are followed by edible peppery purple berries in late summer. Male and female...
An attractive Goodenia, notable for the pink-mauve flowers on a medium sized plant to half a metre tall. Tends to be short lived, but worth growing. Best in a sandy loam, but is adaptable to other soils if well drained. ...
An attractive, hardy and long flowering creeping groundcover plant that is very useful in the garden and for landscaping. Normally prostrate, there are also forms growing around half a metre high. Has bright yellow...
A small perennial shrub that has white flowers from late winter through to mid summer, on blue green foliage. Naturally occurs in South Australia on alkaline soils. Grows from a rhizome.
A wonderful and hardy bulbous perennial with broad strappy leaves and eye catching tall flowers from November to March. This is a useful plant for a wide range of challenging positions. It will grow in poorly drained...
A beautiful Western Australian shrub, with bright red flowers mainly in spring and summer, highly prized as cut flowers. The foliage is also attractive, with small leaves and blue green colouring. It can be touchy in areas...
Landscape Gold is from the Tall and Tough range of kangaroo paws, and grows well in a good range of soil types and positions. Blooming generously from spring to summer with bright yellow and gold flowers which are...
Landscape Scarlet is from the Tall and Tough range of kangaroo paws, and grows well in a good range of soil types and positions. It makes a stunning garden and landscape plant with its tall flower stems from spring to...
An attractive small shrub when in flower, with large pea shaped golden yellow blooms from late winter to spring. It has fine leaves arranged in groups of three, and the overall effect is of a very delicate plant when...
A slow growing tree from NSW and Queensland rainforest areas, with attractive glossy dense foliage and bronze new growth. The fruit is small and blue following cream scented flowers in early summer. While it can get to 25...
A creeping plant that spreads widely from underground stolons, making it a good ground cover. It is also used as a soft lawn alternative which doesn't need mowing, though it won't stand up to hard traffic. It grows...
A small shrub growing to a metre high, and while it can be touchy and short lived, it is worth growing for the beautifully perfumed flowering in spring. The small but numerous blooms make good cut flowers, are in shades of...
A small shrub with a wiry growth habit and tiny leaves, which lights up at flowering time with charming drifts of small white flowers displayed on the ends of each stem. It is an easy care plant provided the need for...
A delightful medium sized shrub that bears masses of bell shaped flowers in spring and autumn. There are different colour forms, from red or pink tipped with white to all white varieties. It naturally grows in well drained...
An attractive small shrub with long lasting displays of beautiful white tipped rose pink bell flowers from autumn through to spring, and is great for brightening the garden in winter which is it's peak flowering...